Taylor County commissioners enacted a 90-day burn ban at their meeting Tuesday, noting that hot and dry conditions, along with high winds, increases the danger of wildfires.

"As we saw just within the last couple of days, a lightning strike started a fire in Nolan County and took it three days to get that under containment," Commissioner Chuck Statler said.

The burn ban does not affect the sale on fireworks, Statler said, since the county would have taken action banning sales prior to June 15.

"But we do want to remind that public that discharging fireworks on county roadways or even on county rights-of-ways is a Class C misdemeanor," he said. "Charges will be filed by our law enforcement people, and (justices of the peace) have assured me they will take appropriate actions if charges are filed."

If there is a fire from the use of fireworks that affects to adjacent property, the person starting that fire has liability for damages to others' property, Statler said.